Promotion of Women: A Feminist Reinterpretation of Shahraz’s “Perchanwan”
Keywords:
Women’s Promotion, Gender Representation, Androcentric, Structural Norms, Cultural Relevance, StereotypeAbstract
In this research, I am trying to find out the theoretical perspective of feminism, which is the promotion of women in Shahraz’s selected short story with the help of De Beauvoir’s (1953) framework, and to explore the gender representation within the context of Pakistani social structure. The basic focus is an effort to analyze whether the story’s protagonists resist the existing social order and prove their existence as educated, potent, independent, and competent persons. Therefore, this paper basically focuses on the female characters’ depiction of how they take the bold steps in an androcentric structural norms which are strongly rooted in the social setup, and redefine their positions as educated, upgraded, and enlightened ones. The material of the research for this paper is taken from the short fiction, and the selected story is not only helpful to explore the reflection of life, but also explores the issues that have social and cultural relevance, in which the women’s promotion is the most important. In light of the conclusion drawn, it is safe to assert that Shahraz’s selected short story is feminist, and her protagonists are not stereotypical traditional women.
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